Subject: Re: How well does dump deal with active filesystems?
To: None <Mark_Weaver@brown.edu>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 03/28/1994 18:47:21
> How well does dump deal with active filesystems?  I haven't looked
> into the source code, since I figure someone here can give me a quick
> answer.

"pretty well," as far as i'm aware.  From what i've seen:
	(1) if a file isn't there when the directories are dumped,
		it won't be dumped
	(2) if a file is changed after the directories are dumped,
		it won't be dumped.

in other words, if you want complete dumps, you've gotta do them from
a quiescent file system.


chris

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